"WIRELESS" STATIONS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 7

"WIRELESS" STATIONS

COMMONWEALTH ADOPTS SCHEME

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Melbourne, July 5,

The Federal Government has adopted the recommendations of the Radio-Tele-graphic Conference held in December last.

It is expected that during the week the sites for the' wireless stations in Sydney and Fremantle will be selected.

AGITATION IN INDIA. COMPULSORY ADOPTION AT SEA URGED. '~ '; (Rec. July-5, 9.20 p.m.) Bombay, July 5. The recent anxiety in connection with'the breakdown and consequent delay of the steamer Trieste has caused an agitation in India for wireless telegraphy installations ;in all passenger steamers. The erection of public wireless stations at Aden, Karachi, and Ceylon is also demanded, in. addition to that at Bombay, which is already working.

THE PACIFIC "WIRELESS" SCHEME. . The conference was between the Governments of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, the High Commissioner of the AVestern Pacific, the Admiralty, and the Pacific Cable' Board. It recommended:— (1) That high-power wireless stations be established at or near Sydney, Doubtless Bny (N.Z.), Suva, and Ocean Island; the Sydney station' to bo capable o£ communicating with Doubtless Bay/' that at Doubtless Bay' with Sydney and Suva, that at Suva with Doubtless Bay and Ocean Island, and that at Ocean Island with Suva. (2) That medium-powered stations be established at Tulagi (Solomon Islands) and A'ila (New Hebrides). It was estimated that the high-power stations would cost not less than ,£12,000, aJid the medium-power ones .£6OOO, the buildings to cost in each case from ,61000 to .£2OOO extra. 'Hie total, cost of the scheme was put at JM2,OOb, which would be apportioned as follows-.—lmperial Government, .£23,334; Commonwealth, .£12,833; New Zealand, .£2333; Fiji, XSSOO. The annual cost of a continuous service is put at ,£13,820, while a restricted service could be maintained for =69070.